Brandon Boyd Quotes

“Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink,
Now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides.
Fuse the two - Kapow! What are you now?
You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes?”

“Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!”

“Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.”

“My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.”

“Your love is a verb here in my room.”

“I've been thinking of combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of planet Earth - like gravity, hypocrisy, the perils of being in 3-D, and thinking so much differently.”

“To resist is to piss in the wind.
Anyone who does, will end up smelling.
Knowing this, why do I defy?
Because my inner voice is yelling.
There is a fist pressing against
Anyone who thinks something compelling.
Our intuit we're taught to deny
Yes, our soul, we're told's for selling.”

“Morning View is I think collectively probably our favorite record that we have made as a band because it was the most effortless… um… in its conception… you know? It was a lot less slaving over parts and trying to just get together in this big beautiful room with a view of the ocean and parts and sounds and melodies and lyrics would just happen… they would just sort of spill out of us without us really trying… so to me that's sort of the most amazing way to write music or do any kind of art, which is by letting it happen… but one of the most important parts in any sort of.. uh… journey so to speak.. Is uh… the ride… and we've had a really good time riding to where ever it is we are going… and I don't even think any of us know particularly where it is going to take us… But it's been really fun sort of chasing it.”

“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”

“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate!”

“Have a heart and try me, cause without love I won't survive.”

“In my opinion, so much of it is really about what you had in mind when you got into it: was it only that you wanted to be a rockstar and see your name in lights? I never really had those kinds of dreams. I knew I loved music and I knew that when I sang in a certain way it made my chest and my whole stomach tickle and I liked it. It still does that same thing to me; I know I’m doing it right when it makes my core tingle a little bit. I get the same feeling when I’m painting a picture or when I get into that almost hypnotic state of writing – those things are incredible and those are the kinds of things that attract me to creativity.”

“Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand.”

“The world is a drought when out of love.”

“When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.”

“It's just another day in the life of apes with ego trips.”

“If you really want to live, why not try and make yourself?”

“There's so much more to get than wronged.”

“I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.”

“Lyrically speaking, I know that there were a lot of things going on in and around the world and there were some very specific people in my mind coming dangerously close to having megolomaniacal tendancies and so I did my best to write those thoughts down.”

“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness”

“Floating down a river named Emotion…will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?”

“Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.”

“I am bottled, fizzy water, and you are shaking me up.”

“Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I'm there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction,
Would I even care?
I would.”

“I've had all that I can take and exploding seems like a definite possibility to me.”

“It feels like trading brains with an imbecile.”

“You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.”

“Pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and its people's mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flames.
Pardon me, pardon me.
I'll never be the same.”

“My secret arsenal is an infinite, ageless ink well. It's a fountain of youth and a patriot's weapon of choice.”

“Kudos to those who see through sickness.”

“She has a fascination with Mayan prophecies, and she's writing a book that's sort of her remembrance of her past incarnation. Whatever she applies herself to, she makes it this beautiful, glorious world around her. All of us kids have always been artistic because of her influence.”

“The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.”

“the day you were born, you were born free. That is your privilege.”

“Insecurites are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.”

“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.”

“If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.”

“Forgive my indecision. I am only a man.”

“I'm keeping an eye on the future, an eye on the past, and the present in my pocket.”

“This island isn't big enough for both of us…so who will swim in eel-infested oceans?”

“Wait, there is a light, there is a fire, illuminated attic. Fate or something better, I could care less, Just stay with me a while”

“Put down your hollow tips,
And kiss your lover's lips,
And know that fate is what we make of it.”

“Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing-we're domesticated apes with a microphone.”

“I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.”

“I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down.”

“On the surface you hate, but you know you need me.”

“If I forgot some stuff, please excuse me; I ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69 and can scarcely remember my own name.”

“If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.”

“We don't know much about him. We do know that he came from a sperm meeting an egg. Actually, his name is Charles Mulholland. We don't know what he does, but he sure looks like he knows something.”

“You're so much more endearing with the sound turned off.”

“If I turn into another,
Dig me up from under what is covering the better part of me.
Sing this song.
Remind me that we'll always have each other
When everything else is gone.”

“On the back of every right, there's a wrong looming.”

“To get their attention, start lobbing the light grenades (That burst and blind them with the truth! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!)”

“Seeing you is like pulling teeth, and hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil!”

“Consequence, you'll see, will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.”

“When I drive myself, my light is found.”

“If you're looking for an open book - Look no further, I am yours.”

“Temporaryism has been the Black Plague and the Jesus of our age.”

“I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!”

“I need a map of your head, translated into English, so I can learn to not make you frown.”

“Get out from under precipice and see the sky.”

“I marvel at the stars, and feel my heart overflow.”

“I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy.”

“I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact…then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so…I wrote a song about it.”

“This isn't coincidence. There's no such thing.”

“Give it time, girl, the fire feels divine.
The sweetest things, they burn before they shine.”